My mother’s notes from Montenegro

My mother’s notes from Montenegro

I spent my last month in Scotland going through the residue of my mother’s stuff (she died in June 2017 and if you’d like to see how wonderful she was click here). We had a container full of things …
Travel as a Way of Life

Travel as a Way of Life

I first posted this article in 2016, but it’s so useful for anyone who wants to go travelling that I’m re-posting it again now. In the interim, Darmon Richter has published a book that is well worth getting: Chernobyl: A...
Stephanie Wolfe Murray: elfin, beautiful, passionate, courageous

Stephanie Wolfe Murray: elfin, beautiful, passionate, courageous

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography just published Timothy Neat’s lyrical description of Stephanie Wolfe Murray. This is a draft copy. The publisher as minstrel. Elfin, beautiful, passionate, courageous, driven by a wish to serve – the life of Stephanie...
Tribute to our mother by Kim Wolfe Murray

Tribute to our mother by Kim Wolfe Murray

This text was read out at the memorial event to Stephanie Wolfe Murray at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 23 August 2017 by my big brother Kim. Photo by Peggy Hughes. One of my earliest memories as a three...
Eulogy to Stephanie Wolfe Murray

Eulogy to Stephanie Wolfe Murray

This was the first address given at the funeral of Stephanie Wolfe Murray on the 5th of July 2017, at the Old Parish Kirk in Peebles. By Gavin Wolfe Murray. Stephanie, my mother, Mummy, the boss. She meant the world …